Soli Deo Gloria: “To God Alone Be Glory” was the fifth foundational cry of the Protestant Reformers. It stood in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church’s “theology of glory” which taught that the glory of one’s salvation was attributed not only to the finished work of Jesus Christ but also to the saints, the Virgin Mary and even of the sinner themselves. This was a “different gospel” that thrives even today and we as Reformers will now fight to reaffirm that the “theology of the cross” is the only gospel by which God alone is worthy of glory.

Sola Christo: It is important when studying the five ‘Solas’ we keep in mind two elements. First, all the solas are interrelated and work together in concert with one another, meaning you cannot have one without the others. They are mutually interdependent. Secondly, the five solas are just as important today as they were during the time of the Protestant Reformation for what is at the heart of the Gospel. With that in mind, we must come to grasp that Sola Christus stands at the center of the other four solas, connecting them into a theological principles by which the Reformers, just as we do today, declared the glory of God!